On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 08:09:10AM -0500, Brian Rosen wrote: > It's trivial for a human, but not for a computer. > Many things trivial for humans are not trivial for computers. > > The kind of harvesting you are talking about is trivial for a human from any > format as long as your editor can paste while losing formatting. > > What we are seeing is increasing use of fully automated tools that don't > have humans identifying which octets are MIB and which are code. You can't > do that with plain ASCII. True. So what? Do you think that it is possible, or even a good idea, that tools be able to rip out a MIB without reading the rest of the text? If so, why the heck do we spend so much time working on a the human-readable sections, like Security Considerations? And how much time does it really save to have an automated tool pull out the MIB, instead of having a human do it? And what percentage of the effort does that represent out of the effort to create a product, anyway? 0.0001% 0.00001%? I can usually do it in under a minute with some emacs macros, but I'm willing to admit that I may be a bit better at it than others. Other people could probably do it in a few minutes using sed and awk, or even (gasp) perl. - Ted _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf